Office Chair Makeover

You've probably had one of those regular "leather" office chairs that we know are far from leather. Ha, I have two of those, they've been in the office for more than 7 years and they still function very well, one of them is still in overall really good condition, the other not so much, look at that :/ It's a bit of embarrassing posting a picture of it, but hey that's how it looked.

What do you do with a chair like that? yeah, my husband told me, "bring it to the trash", but I just couldn't! I brought it to the basement to first try to re-upholster the seat, that's the only thing that was damaged.

It got flipped up-side down. At first I thought I could separate the seat's base by unscrewing 5 regular screws (yellow arrows), but nope, the ones with the red arrows had to be loosen too. An Allen wrench and a screw was all that was needed.

The ugly cover was quickly removed.

The new cover --->The burlap coffee sack I found on my last flea market trip. The old cover served as a guide. Padding was added to the seat before stapling the cover in place.

Once the seat was fixed, the leather back didn't go that well with the burlap, it needed a change too ;) I didn't see screws to take the front off the back plastic cover. I tried to pull it apart with no luck :(

I was now thinking of doing a slip for this part, but when my husband came home I asked him to see how this two pieces were put together, he reply oh, that's for sure by pressure, and he was right! I didn't have the kind of force to pull them apart though :/ They're connected on these four points:

Once apart, it got re-upholstered too. The burlap sack didn't have any more designs, so I painted two lines and a number that had a meaning to me.

This is how it looks now.

This makeover was very easy and it makes me uneasy to think that I also contemplated the idea of throwing it away! How many times we throw away stuff that requires simple makeovers. Crazy!

Such a great makeover. I can't tell you how many chairs I have gotten rid of because of tears, rips and wear ~ next time I'll give this a try! Thank you so much for sharing it at Project Inspired{d}. Our party will still be Monday nights at 8 p.m. EST but our features will be posted on Saturdays and this is one of them! Thanks so much for making our party a success. Stop by tomorrow and grab a featured button! {pinning}

I'm so in LOVE with your office chair makeover! I love the fact that you actually took that thing apart! Gutsy move! :) I've featured you in this weekend's Party Junk. Thanks so much for linking up last weekend!